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In 2012 the Perkins Great Eastern Run, took place on 14 October and was one of only five runbritain Grand Prix races as well as being a UK Championship race. In 2013 the Perkins Great Eastern Run, which took place on 13 October, reached a record number entries, which was beaten in 2016 when 4262 runners ran the half-marathon and 1257 people ...
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The Great Eastern decided to build on the mood of constructive cooperation, and in 1864 suggested to the GNR a new and direct joint line from Spalding to Lincoln through Sleaford. The GNR saw that this would shorten the route of its loop line through Boston, and agreed, and a bill was prepared for the 1867 session of Parliament for the scheme.
The towns and villages served by the route are listed below; [4] Peterborough; Spalding; Sleaford. connections with Grantham–Skegness line; Ruskington; Metheringham; Lincoln; After an upgrade in 2015, the route through to Lincoln (and beyond to Doncaster) has a regular role as a diversionary route for trains from the East Coast Main Line, primarily for slower freight services but ...
This became the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Line, implemented in 1882 and 1883. The Great Eastern route from March to Huntingdon was also transferred to joint control. The GER profited immensely from this new arrangement, bringing coal to East Anglia, and also to London via Cambridge.
The route continues South, meeting with the Harfrey's Roundabout, which connects the A47 to Great Yarmouth's Herring Bridge. From there the A47 is formed of the Gorleston Bypass, a 2.6KM stretch of dual carriageway with a single slip-road connecting it to Gorleston via the A143 .
Permission had been gained for the Northern and Eastern Railway to run through Peterborough and Lincoln but it had barely reached Cambridge. Two obvious extensions of the Midland Counties line were from Nottingham to Lincoln and from Leicester to Peterborough. They had not been proceeded with, but Hudson saw that they would make ideal "stoppers ...
Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, Duddeston Junction Chord - Duddeston Viaduct was built 1846 to allow trains of the Great Western Railway to run into the Birmingham New Street station of the London and North Western Railway. The two companies were at enmity, so no such train ever ran.